Many delicious Japanese confections--daifuku, anpan, manju, yokan, dango, anmitsu, taiyaki, etc. some similar to Chinese mooncakes, include as a filling ingredient sweetened red bean paste (think 'Nutella' for deliciousness as a pastry filling).

Sometimes, when I bake manju 'bean buns' for my husband I use a can of pre-sweetened already mashed red beans. The label plainly says 'Red Bean Paste' or 'Azuki Paste', but my Japanese husband calls it 'anhnk', a humorously termed humorously reference to its color and consistency similar to certain bodily elimination products.

It's still too early in the introductions to get beyond the snickering when Dr. Unka is mentioned. I cannot think of him without a picture in my mind of a freshly warm pile of 'anhnk'. Now, every time Dr. Unka's name is mentioned I have a picture in my mind of what Dr. Pissy found in his examination room unexpectedly after a dog visited. Perhaps Unka has a similar meaning in Hebrew.

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